Associate Member Firms


APQC: American Productivity & Quality Center

123 North Post Oak Lane, Third Floor
Houston, TX
Tel: 1.800.776.9676
Fax: 713.681.8578
Web: www.apqc.org

For more than 30 years, APQC has worked with organizations across all industries to find practical, cost-effective solutions to drive productivity and quality improvement. This firm is a member-based nonprofit currently serving more than 500 organizations in all sectors of business, education, and government. Spearheaded by APQC, the global Open Standards Benchmarking CollaborativeSM (OSBC) research helps executives benchmark within their peer group, as well as with best-in-class organizations with comparable business processes. OSBC research standardizes the processes and measures that organizations worldwide use to benchmark and improve their performance. After contributing performance data to the OSBC database, participants receive, at no cost, custom reports comparing their practices to top performers and relevant peers to pinpoint improvement opportunities.


Azist: Professional Support Services
Av. Belgrano 845, 6th floor Apt. B,
C1092AAI Buenos Aires, Argentina
Tel: 888.379.1038
Fax: 917.591.2882
Web: www.azist.com

Azist is an international outsourcing firm founded in 2004 that offers business and professional consultants 24x7 support in the production of presentations and documents in several languages, including English, Spanish, Portuguese and German. Their founders and senior management have extensive international experience as business consultants, investment bankers, and IT-entrepreneurs. As former users of business service outsourcing solutions, they know exactly what it is that customers look for in a professional service provider. The firm's customer base ranges from global Fortune 1,000 companies, to major consulting firms and large to medium corporations across Europe, North America, Asia, Latin America and Africa.  

BLISS PR

500 5th Avenue, Suite 1010
New York, NY 10110
Tel: 212.840.1661
Fax: 212.840.1663
Web: www.blisspr.com

BlissPR is a strategic, business-to-business public relations and marketing communications firm based in New York City, specializing in professional services, financial services and healthcare. The firm is 34-years-old and operates in New York, Chicago and St. Louis. It is an active member of the Worldcom PR Group and the Council of PR Firms. BlissPR believes knowledge-based businesses differentiate themselves through the quality of their ideas. That's why it specializes in creating and promoting thought leadership. BlissPR has served professional firms since 1979. On the management consulting side, it has worked with consultants specializing in strategy, operations, human resources and technology. BlissPR has also counseled attorneys, CPAs, actuaries, executive search firms and marketing research firms. Many of its relationships exceed a decade due to the success of its client partnerships.

 

E-Rewards Market Research

8401 North Central Expressway
Suite 900, LB-38

Dallas, TX 75225

Tel: 888 203 6245

Fax: 214 782 2900

Web: www.e-rewardsresearch.com

 

E-Rewards Market Research is a leading global online sampling and online data collection company, recognized for delivering high-quality panelists, high response rates, and industry-leading panel retention rates. The company operates panels with more than 6 million panelists in 38 countries around the globe. Offering a full suite of data collection services including online sample, survey programming and hosting, and survey translations, the company serves over 2,000 clients with a multilingual staff located in 22 offices around the globe.


Exec
|Comm

 

28 West 44th Street
Suite 1211
New York, NY 10036
Tel: 212 252 5855
Fax: 212 684 2688
Web: www.exec-comm.com


Exec|Comm, LLC is a communication consulting firm.  We help business professionals write more clearly, present with more impact, negotiate more effectively and develop stronger client relationships.  During our courses and coaching sessions, participants engage in skill-building exercises to practice and learn these skills.  We believe that all business professionals have greater impact with clients and colleagues when they focus less on themselves, and more on their audience - whether that audience is one individual receiving a performance review, or 1,000 people at an industry conference.  We are registered through NASBA as a certified sponsor of course that qualify for CPE credit through state accountancy boards.  Exec|Comm's Law Firm Group is an Accredited Provider of Continuing Legal Education in New York.  In addition, we hold a GSA contract, which allows us to participate in work for the federal government.



Gray Matters Group
350 N. Orleans Street, Suite 950
Chicago, IL 60654
Tel: 312.881.2230
Fax: 312.881.2001
Web: www.graymattersgroup.com

Gray Matters Group (GMG) is a Chicago-based training and consulting firm that works exclusively with professional services firms to help enhance the performance of their business, client and revenue development efforts.  GMG's anchor offering, Relationship Xpansion (Rx) for Professionals, is a comprehensive skill building and follow-through experience that helps firms "activate" all client facing service delivery professionals to better support client relationships, opportunity identification and revenue growth.  The goal is to create an army of "mini-rainmakers" (mistmakers).  GMG has delivered the Rx Workshop's content to thousands of consultants at firms including Deloitte, KPMG, Ingenix Consulting and numerous other professional services firms of varying technical disciplines.


Harding & Company
9 Sommer Avenue
Maplewood, NJ 07040
Tel: 973.763.9284
Fax: 973.763.9347
Web: www.hardingco.com

Harding & Company helps professionals learn to sell and market and to make the transition from doing and managing client work to bringing it in. They help build the sale behaviors and discipline that are vital to any firm's success. Recognizing that professionals face special sales challenges, their training differs from programs used to train traditional sales forces. The firm's programs are designed for those who must both sell and deliver services, who never expected to have to sell and who want to understand the theory and logic that underlie practical techniques. Harding & Company emphasizes building relationships that will feed a consultant new business over a career. Their programs go beyond skill building to coaching in order to effect significant behavioral change.

HT Capital Advisors, LLC
437 Madison Ave.
New York, NY 10022-7001
Tel: 212-759-9080
Fax: 212-759-0299
Web: www.htcapital.com

HT Capital Advisors, LLC is an investment and merchant banking firm led by senior practitioners with extensive experience in both domestic and international markets. Headquartered in New York, HT Capital provides a range of advisory services to both public and private companies across various industries including business and professional services. Our services involve advising on mergers/acquisitions, debt/equity financings, business reorganizations/restructurings, business valuations/fairness opinions in addition to providing general corporate finance advisory services to enhance shareholder value. Our firm also looks to partner with other consulting practices in order to leverage our capital markets and transaction-related experience with their industry expertise.


Mark Kamin & Associates, Inc.
47-49 44th Street, Su#2F
Woodside, NY 11377
Tel: 917.374.6518

1431 Longleaf Court
Weddington, NC 28104
Tel: 704.708.9325
Fax: 704.708.9326
Web: www.mka-world.com

Mark Kamin & Associates founded in 1982, in Houston, TX has eleven US satellite offices in cities including Charlotte, San Francisco, Detroit, New York, Tampa, as well as Toronto, Canada, Lagos, Nigeria and Tel Aviv, Israel.  They are a consulting and design firm that specializes in the transformation of organizational culture, cutting edge leadership and performance technology, executive consulting and re-invention and professional sales training.

Mark Kamin & Associates' successful consulting practice is founded on a unique consulting philosophy.  They believe that for an organization to fulfill on its promise, impeccable integrity, extraordinary communication and strategic structures for fulfillment are required.  They consult, coach and train people and organizations to distinguish and live these principles.

For 28 years, Mark Kamin & Associates have been successfully delivering their consulting, coaching, training and programs to a wide client group that include financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies, aerospace, retail, manufacturing, bio-chemical and more.


PDN Ltd.
The City Arc
89 Worship Street
London
EC2A2BF
Tel: +44 (0)845 6806608
Web: www.pdnltd.com

PDN is a training and development firm which seeks to improve clients' capabilities by bringing best practice consulting skills and experience to leading corporations.  All PDN team members are former consulting senior managers or partners each with over 15 years experience in management consulting. Over the last 20 years, PDN has provided cutting-edge tools to thousands of professionals globally.  Many professional development specialists provide training using cookie cutter templates.  However, such programs rarely fulfill their potential, because learning without execution commitment is meaningless.  PDN's expertise is in creating the culture and practices in which the best and most appropriate ideas and tools are applied and imbedded.  PDN programs are based on extensive research with major business schools in the UK and US and from best practice and trends in leading consulting firms.  Business results are produced through assessment and design, education, consulting, facilitation and coaching. 

Peppercom
470 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10016
Tel: 212-931-6114
Fax: 212-931-6159
Web: www.peppercom.com

Peppercom is an international strategic communications firm. They specialize in helping professional services firms differentiate themselves in an increasingly cluttered and commoditized marketplace.  Peppercom also helps professional service firms engage and improve their work in social media, plan special events, better communicate their "green" initiatives and achieve greater brand awareness through traditional and non-traditional media relations.

Peppercom sets themselves apart from the competition by "understanding the business of their client's business" and helps clients achieve business goals through communications initiatives.  They have won numerous awards from PRSA Big Apples Award, Silver Anvils, to SABRE Awards for Best Client Service.  Their focus on innovation and the benefit it provides to clients can best be summed up by this headline: "Over 2,000 publir relations firms understnad PR. Few understand your business."

Target Teams, Inc.
146 Mount Auburn Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617-864-7474
Fax: 617-812-6021
Web: http://www.target-teams.com/

For close to a decade, Target Teams has helped consulting firms understand the people who impact the success of their consulting assignments - their clients.  Today, more than 40 consulting firms regularly include Target Teams' solutions in their consulting assignments to ensure business strategies are embraced and sustained by a client's leaders and business culture.  Target Teams' sophisticated online Talent Alignment Platform, Target Teams Advisor, collects and analyzes talent information for consultants.  Talent information about one or several teams, leaders, companies, executives etc. is presented visually so the consultant can easily identify blind spots, challenges, and other important findings that reduce risk and increase success of consulting assignments.

UC Berkeley Center for Executive Education, Haas School of Business
2220 Piedmont Avenue, S-460
Berkeley, CA 94720
Tel: 1.877.UCB. EXEC
Web: www.executive.berkeley.edu

For over a century, the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley has been a leader in business education at America's preeminent public university. The Center for Executive Education draws on the university's vast resources and industry best practice to provide advanced management programs to executives across the world. Their portfolio includes open programs on Leadership, Finance, Sustainability, Strategic Management, and Innovation. All programs are designed in collaboration with leading faculty from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business as well as from across the UC Berkeley campus. For companies requiring a more specialized approach, they also offer customized programs that address specific organizational challenges and goals.

 

 
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